I wish they all could be as good as Firefly, LOTR, Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, Fifth Element, or at least as good as La Fem Nikita or Brotherhood of the Wolves - but I draw the line there.
It is against the law to stop and question someone just because they have different skin color or clothes. That is harassment.
It seems you must be white, and have no tattoos or piercing, and probably shop at JCPennies. If a cop saw you down town, in an area usually frequented by drug dealers, hookers and "street punks" while you were getting ready to do business at DMV, would you want him to stop you and ask you what you were doing in that neighborhood? Maybe detain you while he ran your ID? Ask you questions like "you here to pick up a date?" Don't answer "Yeah, I'd love that" until it happens to you, I doubt you will like it.
Suspicion of a crime is what is needed, being dressed differently or wearing the wrong color of skin, is not a crime. Well, unless you are a clown.
As for what happened in the instant case, the person's name was immaterial to "determining what happened".
Maybe you should actually read the whole decision as well. One of his arguements was that if he were to identify himself, and the relationship between the 2 individuals were to be found out, he could be brought up on domestic abuse charges. Therefore, names were material. Plus, had a standard check come back with say a previous conviction for domestic assault, it would have raised another flag with law enforcement. The individual was according to the police officer, and my personal review of the video tape, hostile, abusive, and acting in an irrational manner. Since we don't have a smell track to video yet, I can't determine if he smelled drunk or not. The officer however stated he smelled alcohol. While not a crime in and of itself, combine with the report of violence, his behavior at the scene, etc. I think most people would have reached a conclusion that something was happening. This leads to a "probable cause."
Doens't this conflict with the 5th amendment? Afterall, it seems the man feared his name would lead to potentially incriminating evidence that he would like to avoid being a witness about.
It is funny that instead of saying your name you can give your ID up to avoid being a witness against yourself, of the 5th amendment; yet, giving your ID seems to be in violation of the 4th's right to the people's right to be secure in their papers.
Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but it seems the intention of the amendments was to avoid what is going on here. I can't believe that the founders would have approved of any cops right to demand a man's name while investigating a crime against that man.
Except that ID was requested in this case, not the man's name. I did not hear the officer ask the man's name, just for ID.
ID holds more information on a person than just their name, so I see no problem with refusing to turn over ID since the ruling says "any person so detained shall identify himself, but may not be compelled to answer any other inquiry of any police officer." I think the request for ID is not a single question -- what is your name -- but many questions, all which should be covered by the ruling.
Then again, perhaps your IDentification is more than just your name? Weeeeeeeee here we go down the slippery slope!
You can't have 24/7 gaming and any kind of relationship (outside of the game). Don't even try.
You have to balance the gaming and your relationship if you are going to have both. This means: don't forget important dates - actually use your PDA; changing the topic from gaming now and again; remembering to get the little gifts and the big gifts; and dropping the game from time to time when your honey wants to do something else.
I find your agrument here interesting. First you start by stating that "censorship is BAD" and I won't argue with that. But you must define what censorship is. According to my dictionary, censorship deals with an office or authority. That doesn't exist in this case. No one is being forced to watch a version that they don't want to watch. There is no authority, it is a service that is being purchased.
Simply put, authority is power assigned to another. The authority here is that someone paid for the device, and uses it, giving those who program it the ultimate power over what is being watched.
Yes, but this isn't censorship. Censorship is where I tell you what you can see and hear. This is you deciding what you want to see and hear..
This is censorship. It is censorship because by using the machine you are not deciding what you want to see and hear, the machine is doing that for you.
The problem is you can't decide without actually seeing the work, if you let anything or anyone else assess the work for you, it is censorship.
But I guess that is about trusting others to lead your life and to show you what is Right.
-Brother Gando
*Censor: From the latin censor, Roman censor, from censre, to assess.
Uh, they aren't taking boobies away from you. It only gives that option to those who want to see the movie, but don't care for the "naughty bits".
There is no respect for The Artist anymore. We censor His works and allow others to tell us His works are somehow flawed. By doing so we tell Him his works are flawed. And if His works are flawed, we are all flawed.
As God's creation why should we not view our artistic creation with out any censorship? Nudity and sex were not made by man, man makes those things that cover over these creations.
The "High Definition" yellow or pink tint does a neat thing I did not know about until my eye doctor told me (those who know more feel free to correct me here).
The short story is that different wavelengths (colors) of light focus on our eye at varying distances. So when you look at multicolored objects your eye has to choose one color to focus on (I think he said red was the most common?). Because you can't perfectly focus the other colors, they are slightly blurry.
You don't notice this until you filter out all colors but one, such as red or yellow in the case of these "High Definition" glasses, goggles, or faceplates. Then everything is close to one wavelength, and appears sharper!
Why do we have to suddenly go to the moon now?Are there Terrorists with Weapons Of Mass Destruction and Drugs or Communists up there?
I think the pResident should stop trying to misdirect the American public from his attempts at tyranny.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for space exploration. One of my first, and favorite memories is of watching men land on the moon, and I have always had a love for space exploration.
I'm just not happy that Bush and Co. seem to be trying to pull the wool over our eyes all the time.
If Freenet thinks its main role is going to be making nice things happen in China, and saving pregnant teens, he's either the most naive technologist who ever stepped into the sun, or he wins the Eddie Haskell award.
I think they believe the most important role is the freedom of speech, and acknowledge that it will be used illegally, but that is the rub. Freedom of communication applies to both criminal and non-criminal.
The videotape/VCR analogy loses here because you have to ship tapes around and make them in real time - it is economically obnoxious to do so, so everyone has a vcr, everyone tapes off the air / time shift views and virtually nobody ships tapes around to from their homes to anyone who wants it. The rental system does what we need in that regard.
Well, not in the U.S. I have heard that other countries have places to rent movies that are actually copies of the movie, or even video tapes made from inside a theater.
Imagine the next time you are listening to a news report (NPR for instance) and you miss out on what was said due to distraction. A quick rewind will let you hear what you missed.
I own a TIVO, and am surprised at the number of times I reach to rewind the radio in my drive to and from work.
If you kill an innocent bystander in the middle of a drug deal and the police find a gun on you and $10,000 cash, and you're high as a kite, the cops have every right to get answers to questions like "where's the weed?" before letting you out on parole if they found hydroponics and halogen lights in your basement
You might try smoking some weed, it will help you with all that pent up anger, man...
People high on weed don't use loud things, like guns, because it harshes the buzz... the same goes for killing people...
Weed doesn't kill people. Scared, angry, hateful people kill people. Just say no to Fear, Anger, and Hate.
It's not like making beer, where you buy a bunch of things and mix them together in your basement.
Dude, anyone can make beer.
However, good beer can be made only in a handful of breweries in the world, requires specialized equipment, top of the line ingredients, and a tremendous degree of technical skill with years of experience.
I had a hell of a time, and you have to configure most of it by hand (re: pull out your editor and hit the conf files). I'm not usually against this sort of thing, being a System Admin, but geeeeesh.
Granted I went the lame way out with Winders, but geeeeesh.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, so here is mine.
Although I did not stop reading Battlefield Earth (I'm a voracious reader), I did feel that it was one of the worse books that ever got the amount of good publicity it does.
There are so many well written and exciting SF books to choose from. My advice is: don't bother with any of Hubbard's trash until you have read through the classics and the works of the top writers of SF. Life is too short to read Hubbard's schlock.
I knew a sherrif deputy who could regularly out draw and shoot (with an unloaded gun), someone who had a (unloaded) gun already out.
He knew what he was going to do, and when, as opposed to the person who had the gun out, who was reacting to the situation (shoot only if the guy draws). Granted, you might not stop someone who is holding a gun on you from shooting, but it could be done regularly with some training.
There are many crimes every day that are deterred by individuals with guns. Everyday there are many people that defend themselves successfully with guns.
Taking a great defense tool out of the hands of the people who are willing to carry guns, and forcing them to rely on their government to protect them without holding the government responsible for not protecting them is wrong.
Uh, I don't think this is a good idea. I'm a good player, and bad players always accuse me of cheating. I can remember as a nube I would think "that guy has to be cheating" only to find out that I can do the same thing now.
I have had no problems with HLGuard on our DoD server. We have not caught a lot of cheaters, but my buddies CS server has. Maybe there is less cheating in DoD, there certianly are less servers!
Perhaps you are thinking of rooftops that are made of materials that reflect or hold the heat near the rooftop. With dirt and plants there, wouldn't there be less heat, like the heat levels in your back yard? Isn't that the whole point?
And besides, what plants are you talking about that could not handle the "harsh sun and heat". I don't think they are planning on planting ferns. Think of things that love sunlight and need little water. There are plenty of them growing along side our highways right now, in almost every state.
I think I would try heirloom types of tomatoes, beans, squash and corn, then you get a crop out of the whole thing as well.
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Until google makes Chrome available for my Mac I don't see any reason to try it on my Windows machine.
What if I fall in love? My heart would bleed lonely tears waiting for google to finish the Mac version of Chrome.
Amen.
I wish they all could be as good as Firefly, LOTR, Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, Fifth Element, or at least as good as La Fem Nikita or Brotherhood of the Wolves - but I draw the line there.
H0llyw00d - get a job!
What planet do you live on?
It is against the law to stop and question someone just because they have different skin color or clothes. That is harassment.
It seems you must be white, and have no tattoos or piercing, and probably shop at JCPennies. If a cop saw you down town, in an area usually frequented by drug dealers, hookers and "street punks" while you were getting ready to do business at DMV, would you want him to stop you and ask you what you were doing in that neighborhood? Maybe detain you while he ran your ID? Ask you questions like "you here to pick up a date?" Don't answer "Yeah, I'd love that" until it happens to you, I doubt you will like it.
Suspicion of a crime is what is needed, being dressed differently or wearing the wrong color of skin, is not a crime. Well, unless you are a clown.
As for what happened in the instant case, the person's name was immaterial to "determining what happened".
Maybe you should actually read the whole decision as well. One of his arguements was that if he were to identify himself, and the relationship between the 2 individuals were to be found out, he could be brought up on domestic abuse charges. Therefore, names were material. Plus, had a standard check come back with say a previous conviction for domestic assault, it would have raised another flag with law enforcement. The individual was according to the police officer, and my personal review of the video tape, hostile, abusive, and acting in an irrational manner. Since we don't have a smell track to video yet, I can't determine if he smelled drunk or not. The officer however stated he smelled alcohol. While not a crime in and of itself, combine with the report of violence, his behavior at the scene, etc. I think most people would have reached a conclusion that something was happening. This leads to a "probable cause."
Doens't this conflict with the 5th amendment? Afterall, it seems the man feared his name would lead to potentially incriminating evidence that he would like to avoid being a witness about.
It is funny that instead of saying your name you can give your ID up to avoid being a witness against yourself, of the 5th amendment; yet, giving your ID seems to be in violation of the 4th's right to the people's right to be secure in their papers.
Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but it seems the intention of the amendments was to avoid what is going on here. I can't believe that the founders would have approved of any cops right to demand a man's name while investigating a crime against that man.
Except that ID was requested in this case, not the man's name. I did not hear the officer ask the man's name, just for ID.
ID holds more information on a person than just their name, so I see no problem with refusing to turn over ID since the ruling says "any person so detained shall identify himself, but may not be compelled to answer any other inquiry of any police officer." I think the request for ID is not a single question -- what is your name -- but many questions, all which should be covered by the ruling.
Then again, perhaps your IDentification is more than just your name? Weeeeeeeee here we go down the slippery slope!
You can't have 24/7 gaming and any kind of relationship (outside of the game). Don't even try.
You have to balance the gaming and your relationship if you are going to have both. This means: don't forget important dates - actually use your PDA; changing the topic from gaming now and again; remembering to get the little gifts and the big gifts; and dropping the game from time to time when your honey wants to do something else.
Seek balance.
Duh.
I find your agrument here interesting. First you start by stating that "censorship is BAD" and I won't argue with that. But you must define what censorship is. According to my dictionary, censorship deals with an office or authority. That doesn't exist in this case. No one is being forced to watch a version that they don't want to watch. There is no authority, it is a service that is being purchased.
Simply put, authority is power assigned to another. The authority here is that someone paid for the device, and uses it, giving those who program it the ultimate power over what is being watched.
-Brother Gando
Yes, but this isn't censorship. Censorship is where I tell you what you can see and hear. This is you deciding what you want to see and hear. .
This is censorship. It is censorship because by using the machine you are not deciding what you want to see and hear, the machine is doing that for you.
The problem is you can't decide without actually seeing the work, if you let anything or anyone else assess the work for you, it is censorship.
But I guess that is about trusting others to lead your life and to show you what is Right.
-Brother Gando
*Censor: From the latin censor, Roman censor, from censre, to assess.
Uh, they aren't taking boobies away from you. It only gives that option to those who want to see the movie, but don't care for the "naughty bits".
There is no respect for The Artist anymore. We censor His works and allow others to tell us His works are somehow flawed. By doing so we tell Him his works are flawed. And if His works are flawed, we are all flawed.
As God's creation why should we not view our artistic creation with out any censorship? Nudity and sex were not made by man, man makes those things that cover over these creations.
So, to get closer to God... more boobies!
Yours in Creation,
-Brother Gando
--Fac Iustum Nec Time--
That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
The "High Definition" yellow or pink tint does a neat thing I did not know about until my eye doctor told me (those who know more feel free to correct me here).
The short story is that different wavelengths (colors) of light focus on our eye at varying distances. So when you look at multicolored objects your eye has to choose one color to focus on (I think he said red was the most common?). Because you can't perfectly focus the other colors, they are slightly blurry.
You don't notice this until you filter out all colors but one, such as red or yellow in the case of these "High Definition" glasses, goggles, or faceplates. Then everything is close to one wavelength, and appears sharper!
Why do we have to suddenly go to the moon now?Are there Terrorists with Weapons Of Mass Destruction and Drugs or Communists up there?
I think the pResident should stop trying to misdirect the American public from his attempts at tyranny.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for space exploration. One of my first, and favorite memories is of watching men land on the moon, and I have always had a love for space exploration.
I'm just not happy that Bush and Co. seem to be trying to pull the wool over our eyes all the time.
If Freenet thinks its main role is going to be making nice things happen in China, and saving pregnant teens, he's either the most naive technologist who ever stepped into the sun, or he wins the Eddie Haskell award.
I think they believe the most important role is the freedom of speech, and acknowledge that it will be used illegally, but that is the rub. Freedom of communication applies to both criminal and non-criminal.
The videotape/VCR analogy loses here because you have to ship tapes around and make them in real time - it is economically obnoxious to do so, so everyone has a vcr, everyone tapes off the air / time shift views and virtually nobody ships tapes around to from their homes to anyone who wants it. The rental system does what we need in that regard.
Well, not in the U.S. I have heard that other countries have places to rent movies that are actually copies of the movie, or even video tapes made from inside a theater.
Does that price include a couple years service, or the cost of lifetime service?
Imagine the next time you are listening to a news report (NPR for instance) and you miss out on what was said due to distraction. A quick rewind will let you hear what you missed.
I own a TIVO, and am surprised at the number of times I reach to rewind the radio in my drive to and from work.
If you kill an innocent bystander in the middle of a drug deal and the police find a gun on you and $10,000 cash, and you're high as a kite, the cops have every right to get answers to questions like "where's the weed?" before letting you out on parole if they found hydroponics and halogen lights in your basement
You might try smoking some weed, it will help you with all that pent up anger, man...
People high on weed don't use loud things, like guns, because it harshes the buzz... the same goes for killing people...
Weed doesn't kill people. Scared, angry, hateful people kill people. Just say no to Fear, Anger, and Hate.
Dude, anyone can make beer.
However, good beer can be made only in a handful of breweries in the world, requires specialized equipment, top of the line ingredients, and a tremendous degree of technical skill with years of experience.
Did anyone try to install this?
I had a hell of a time, and you have to configure most of it by hand (re: pull out your editor and hit the conf files). I'm not usually against this sort of thing, being a System Admin, but geeeeesh.
Granted I went the lame way out with Winders, but geeeeesh.
Anyone have any luck?
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, so here is mine.
Although I did not stop reading Battlefield Earth (I'm a voracious reader), I did feel that it was one of the worse books that ever got the amount of good publicity it does.
There are so many well written and exciting SF books to choose from. My advice is: don't bother with any of Hubbard's trash until you have read through the classics and the works of the top writers of SF. Life is too short to read Hubbard's schlock.
Try these authors:
Herbert, Card, Tepper, Heinlein, Silverberg, Ellison, Bradbury, Gibson, Lewis, Harrison, Asimov, Le Guin, Dick, Brin, Niven, Clarke, Moorcock, Vonnegut, Adams, Delany, Vinge, Effinger, Pohl, Orwell, Bova, Zelazny, Sturgeon, Powers, Blish.
Here is a good list to start, and not a bad order to do it in!
http://www25.brinkster.com/topscifi/page72.html
I knew a sherrif deputy who could regularly out draw and shoot (with an unloaded gun), someone who had a (unloaded) gun already out.
He knew what he was going to do, and when, as opposed to the person who had the gun out, who was reacting to the situation (shoot only if the guy draws). Granted, you might not stop someone who is holding a gun on you from shooting, but it could be done regularly with some training.
There are many crimes every day that are deterred by individuals with guns. Everyday there are many people that defend themselves successfully with guns.
Taking a great defense tool out of the hands of the people who are willing to carry guns, and forcing them to rely on their government to protect them without holding the government responsible for not protecting them is wrong.
Anyone know where I can get the hacked version?
:-)
Uh, I don't think this is a good idea. I'm a good player, and bad players always accuse me of cheating. I can remember as a nube I would think "that guy has to be cheating" only to find out that I can do the same thing now.
I have had no problems with HLGuard on our DoD server. We have not caught a lot of cheaters, but my buddies CS server has. Maybe there is less cheating in DoD, there certianly are less servers!
:-)
If you CSers have not tried DoD, go go go!
Perhaps you are thinking of rooftops that are made of materials that reflect or hold the heat near the rooftop. With dirt and plants there, wouldn't there be less heat, like the heat levels in your back yard? Isn't that the whole point?
And besides, what plants are you talking about that could not handle the "harsh sun and heat".
I don't think they are planning on planting ferns. Think of things that love sunlight and need little water. There are plenty of them growing along side our highways right now, in almost every state.
I think I would try heirloom types of tomatoes, beans, squash and corn, then you get a crop out of the whole thing as well.
-G
Add a few plush toys that squeek for effect... or a squeeky nosed t-shirt... hey, where is that link, I need some fabulous MySQL prizes!